Data Centers
The spookiest day of the year is here, and Halloween is actually a good reminder that trouble in the data center is always lurking just beneath the application surface, ready to wreak havoc at any moment ...
How can you be responsive to user demands and support the apps they require? The first step is to optimize your data center. Data center monitoring that provides analytics about your entire IT infrastructure, whether it's on premise, in the cloud or a hybrid environment, is the foundation for this process ...
Why do outages of mission-critical applications still happen? Aren't there multiple solutions that can alert IT teams to problems? Yes – and that can be part of the problem. One alarm goes off, and then another and another until the team is quickly overwhelmed. By the time an incident like this is brought under control, the company may have lost on average as much as $750,000 for a 90-minute outage. Ask these 5 questions before moving forward with a monitoring solution that can address application outages ...
Of those surveyed, 95% of IT managers said the success of their data centers relies on proper performance analytics and IT optimization, with close to half reporting their data center is “extremely reliant” on these factors. according to TeamQuest's Global IT Management survey ...
Of those surveyed, 82 percent of CIOs admit that they are unable to meet their business’s need for immediate, always-on access to IT services, according to the Veeam Data Center Availability Report 2014 ...
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) released its latest research report entitled, Obstacles and Priorities on the Journey to the Software-Defined Data Center.
With the software defined data center transition an imminent reality, the following five management challenges should be on every IT pro’s radar in preparation ...
While 93 percent of the businesses acknowledge the criticality of optimizing application performance across their data centers and networks, three-quarters of them do not feel they are achieving required performance levels, according to a survey of 412 European data center managers by LSI Corporation ...
In a perfect universe, performance management is straightforward. When problems arise, they're easily detected, the source is obvious, and the trouble is quickly solved, never to return again. However, consolidated data centers aren't utopia and monitoring and managing network, application, and service performance isn't so simple. In many instances, performance degrades slowly over time, and problems come and go intermittently ...
Data center consolidation is an IT strategy brought on by the changing IT climate to combine large amounts of servers into a compact, cost-efficient system. Here are five ways data center consolidation can benefit organizations ...
According to a report, Energy Aware Planning and Decision Making, the five imperatives for efficient data center energy management are ...
IT is continuing to turn to the mainframe for strategic advantage, according to BMC Software’s Annual Worldwide Survey of Mainframe Users.
According to the results of Symantec's 2012 State of the Data Center Survey, 79% of organizations report increasing complexity in the data center. The following are Symantec's recommendations that IT can try to mitigate the effects of data center complexity ...
The Open Data Center Alliance unveiled the results of their second annual member survey at the ODCA Solutions Provider Summit. The results show that members are scaling cloud adoption 15% faster than previously forecast.
Last month I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. This year, the hot topic was not only cloud computing but seems there were a lot of discussions around DevOps and analytics. Other topics of interest included Application Performance Monitoring (APM), End-user Experience (EUE), Business Transaction Management (BTM), Big Data and many more around IT operations. Take a peek at the few bits and bites I picked up ...
If you could forecast potential issues in your data center, what would it mean to you? Would advance warning technology be useful? If you could be notified early of an impending problem, would it benefit your business?
Dennis Drogseth outlines CMDB/CMS use cases for Change Management and Change Impact Analysis.
